1943 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First Edition

‘A master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character.’ - Time.

‘Set in the torn landscape of the Blitz, this book is a phantasmagoric study in terror. Arthur Rowe was hamstrung by guilt, the guilt of having murdered his sick wife. He was standing aside from the war until the day when he happened to guess the true weight of a cake at a charity fete and from that moment on he’s a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.’ - Penguin Classics Review. More details

Price HK$ 2,300

1963 - The Bodley Head, London - First Edition

A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); A Visit to the Morin; Dream of a Strange Land and A Discovery in the Woods. In these four stories Graham Greene has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy, myth, legend and dream. More details

Price HK$ 1,400

1936 - William Heinemann Ltd, London Toronto - First Edition

‘Murder didn’t mean much to Raven. It was just a new job. You had to be careful. You had to use your brains. It was not a question of hatred.’

An exceptional copy of one of Greene’s early and rarer titles, chilling political noir and espionage, published as A Gun For Hire in the United States, and with many characters, themes, and settings which went on to feature in Brighton Rock.

Raven stalks the criminal underworld, accepting the jobs that even the most diabolical of criminals refuse to take. When he completes his most dangerous assignment: the murder of a European minister of War, he must avoid the detection of the police, while also discovering the identity of the agent who betrayed him. More details

Price HK$ 18,000

1940 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First Edition, First Printing

‘Graham Greene's masterpiece... The power and energy of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, and ideal communism even more Christian than Communism. Its unit is the individual, not any class’ – John Updike.

During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.

In Ways of Escape, Greene comments that the novel was written to a preconceived thesis: there is a distinction between a man (in this case a drunken priest) and his office. He also remarks how many of the characters in the novel had their origin in people he met in Mexico in 1938, when researching The Lawless Roads.’ – Wise & Hill. More details

Price HK$ 6,000

1958 - Heinemann, London Melbourne Toronto - First Edition

‘An espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greene’s entertainments, it tells of MI6’s man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity.

To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.’ - Penguin Classics Review. More details